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My central idea was to use SSDT to build a dacpac file that would define the schema of our testing database and wrap that DACPAC artifact in a nuget package that testing projects could reference.

It’s not uncommon during early attempts to bootstrap CI and automated testing for an engineering team to start with ‘unit’ tests that read and write to a common development database. Truly, these should be considered more integration tests than unit tests, since they touch more than a single layer of the architecture, but that’s not the main drive of this particular post. My primary goal in adopting testing culture is increasing the amount of reliable and automated testing. Moving towards more pure unit tests will be a drive towards making our automated tests faster (and probably improved architecture)…but that is a problem for a future day.